Activities at Oulton Park Care Home
We have a wonderful team here at Oulton Park and we all work together to provide a stimulating, active environment for our residents that live here. We are always looking for new and innovative ideas for our residents to be part of here, and our activities coordinator works very hard on planning and providing a stimulating busy schedule of activities, as well as assisting the residents with their daily living preferences. We have regular meetings with our families and residents to make sure we are providing things to suit their preferences. We as a home are registered with the National Activity Providers Association and strive to provide a person-centred approach for our residents here.
Louise Hunter-Hall
Hello my name is Louise, I am the life enrichment and activities coordinator at Oulton park care centre.
I joined Oulton Park late 2023 but I have worked in the care industry for over 20 years and I have a compassion for my role and work. During the 20years I have supported many different adults with different care needs including, nursing care, physical disabilities, learning disabilities, independent living and 1:1 needs. I have both my level 2&3 in care and level 2 in sign language.
At Oulton my role is to create and organise a range of engaging and meaningful activities. My role brings me a great deal of comfort and joy.
If I can just make 1 persons life better during my working day at Oulton Park then the day has been a success. I feel honoured, fortunate and blessed to do the job I do.
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Oulton Park Care Home
Christmas Cake Reveal
Here is our wonderful Christmas cake entry.
Our residents decided on a snow globe theme for this year’s competition and I’ve got to say the results look amazing.
The time and skill the residents used to create such lovely cake we cant wait to try it.
Christmas Fayre
Residents, family and friends enjoyed a wonderful Christmas fayre at Oulton park care centre with lots of lovely stalls from knitwear to jams, there were lots of wonderful gifts for people to buy.
The residents even had their very own stall selling crafts they had made for the Christmas period.
Our wonderful kitchen team made delicious cakes, sausage rolls and they even had their own pork roll stall, it was all very tasty.
The Christmas fayre was so much fun with live performances by the 3rd Oulton brownies and rainbows who performed some Christmas carols and then we were also joined by Jonny laff for an afternoon of Christmas musical fun.
We must not forget we were visited by Santa himself who spread the Christmas spirit round the home with his very own Santa’s grotto where you could get a present and a picture with him. It was a jam packed day of fun and smiles!
Preparing the Christmas Cake
With Christmas coming up, the residents began their Christmas prep making a tasty Christmas cake.
The smell of cinnamon, mixed spice, cherries and brandy filled the garden room.
They spoke about what their mothers or grandmothers would do at Christmas time and the way they would cook their Christmas cake.
It was wonderful to hear these stories and reminisce together.
Christmas Garden Centre Trip
The residents and staff enjoyed a wonderful trip to the local garden centre to look at the Christmas decorations and lights.
It was a joyful experience looking at all of the wonderful colours and enjoying the smell of freshly cut Christmas trees whilst music was playing in the background.
We spoke about how they used to celebrate Christmas and how they would decorate their homes, holly appeared to be a very popular option.
Whilst we continued our walk we found a lovely Christmas grotto for the children to enjoy. It was truly a wonderful trip.
Bonfire Night
What an amazing bonfire night.
The residents made their very own guy Faulks ready to go on the fire and we reminisced on the days where children would walk around the local villages/towns collecting what they called a “penny for a guy”.
We also discussed how everyone in their community would come together for these gigantic fires and it was always so much fun.
So this year we ended our bonfire night with a bang! We had an amazing firework show with tasty cakes and hot chocolate. It was wonderful having the families around celebrating with their loved ones and staff.
Hocus Pocus
What a spooky fabulous busy day we had at Oulton Park.
We started our Halloween of with a sensory session with the residents touching and smelling monster slime with the variety of colour and textures. It was fun and sticky to touch!
We then went on to a ghastly quiz with every question based on Halloween the history and the folklores.
We finished off our wonderful day by having our very own Halloween party with some fantastic music and dancing, there was lots of fun by all.
Upcoming events
Countdown to Christmas
Take a look at all of the wonderful festive events and activities throughout December. Please feel free to join our celebrations. Contacts us for more information.
